Retail Games

[dingdong]

I swear i've used vitalize applications in firefox.

[Random]

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[Random]

It works with Opera too, once you installed it for IE.

But the point is that everyone installs shockwave at some point, but distrusts "Vitalize" if he sees it the first time.

[Ravenius]

It's not installed with Internet Explorer or Firefox, so I don't know where your "usually" comes from. However they both automatically prompt to install the first time you visit a site that uses it, same as vitalize.

My bad then. But anyway, Flash is far more popular than Vitalize.

[joewski]

I know MMF2 can be and is used to create retail games and apps, but my question is how widely is it used? Also do publisher and buyers seem to lack interested in a games created with MMF2 because of the way it was made/what it was made with? In other words, do developers using MMF2 have the same opportunities as any other 2d game developers out there who write their own code or use other tools and frameworks such as the popcap and .net frameworks? Cheers!

This has gone a little off topic so, I would like to point some things out to you.

Firstly MMF2 hasn't been out for a long time so there is not much product on the shelves out there.

If you study retail boxed products you'll find that MMF Pro/TGF Pro still holds its own in the educational type program segment and is probably the dominate in this segment. You can't always tell from the box however, you need to know how MMF works to be able to spot them.

There is also a small market for applications in the boxed version market.

For MMF/TGF you'll find them in boxed version in the lower end of the market, again hard to spot and not as dominate.

The PC market now shares retail space equal between the XBox, WII, and PS2, Microsoft, Symantic, EA and a few others are the dominant players in the PC market space. I would say the PC market in stores has been shrinking.

The shrinking is not due to PC not being any more popular, rather PC are mainly now connected to the internet, whereas the other platform's are not as likely to be.

Delivery to market via the retail boxed version market is likely to continue to decline as delivery, stocking and holding are quite expensive. Internet sales continue to grow across the board.

Please note this is my POV, that I have observed over the years, by visiting retail stores and swap meets, it may be different in your own geographical region.

Finally, publishers and distributors are also having a hard time making a dollar out of the retail market as are retailers. They simply can't compete with the internet's low delivery vector.

As I have said MMF2 is a very fast development platform, its more productive than almost any other programming platform.

See
http://www.clickwiki.info/index.php/Multimedia_Fusion_2